Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker.Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty
When Georgia GOP Senate candidateHerschel Walker’s campaign aides came to him to discuss rumors that he had secretly fathered a child years ago — a second in addition to his son Christian, with whom he is publicly close — the former football star told his campaign the rumors were false. The aides, however, already had proof.
But there were.
Those communications show aides who are deeply distrustful of Walker, 60, who they describe in emails and text messages as lying “like he’s breathing.”
“He’s lied so much that we don’t know what’s true,” the Beast’s source said, while three people interviewed for the Beast’s article independently called Walker a “pathological liar.”
In a statement issued following the Daily Beast’s report, Walkers' campaign manager chalked it up to “pure gossip with anonymous sources from a left-leaning publication who has been obsessed with Herschel and his family,” though he did not deny the claims made in the piece.
As the Beast first reported last month, Walker has a second son whom he supports financially but otherwise does not see. Days after confirming his second child, Walker said he has two additional children he had previously not revealed publicly.
The news about his children is the latest in a string of controversies for Walker, a College Football Hall of Famer whowon Georgia’s Republican Senate primaryin May.
Walker hasfalsely claimedhe graduated from the University of Georgia (which he attended before leaving after his junior season to play football professionally in the short-lived United States Football League) and has said in the past that he was “valedictorian of my class” and “in the top 1 percent of my graduating class in college.”
He laterlied about lyingabout graduating from the university.
He has alsoclaimed to have a COVID-killing spraybefore vaccines were rolled out (no such spray exists) and has expressed doubts about human evolution, questioningwhy apes still exist.
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Walker, whoannounced his candidacyfor the U.S. Senate last summer and has secured the endorsement of former PresidentDonald Trump, has spoken in the past abouthaving dissociative identity disorder.
His ex-wife, Cindy, said that he had violent episodes in their marriage, and has claimed Walker held a gun to her head — whichCNN reportedearlier that he did not deny, saying he had blackouts and memory loss and did not remember the episodes.
As one campaign source told the Beast, the myriad controversies are something of a “nightmare” scenario.
“It’s like a s—-show on a train in the middle of a wreck,” the source said.
source: people.com
